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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






3. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






4. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






5. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






6. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






7. A character struggles against some outside force.






8. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






9. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






10. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






12. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






13. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






14. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






15. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






16. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






17. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






18. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






19. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






20. A strong pause within a line.






21. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






22. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






23. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






24. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






25. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






26. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






27. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






28. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






29. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






30. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






31. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






32. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






33. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






34. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






35. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






36. The dictionary meaning of a word.






37. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






38. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






41. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






42. Broken down acts.






43. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






44. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






45. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






46. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






47. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






48. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






49. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






50. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.